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12.3 Building the Web services clients
Now that we have built a and test wrappers for the insurance claims application in
Microsoft .Net and WebSphere, we can build the new Web application that will
make use of the two Web services.
A Java 2 Enterprise Edition Web service client, also known as a service
consumer or service requestor, is an application component acting as a client for
a specific Web service. As in all classical remoting implementations, such as
CORBA or RMI, the Web service client component is implemented as a proxy
object able to wrap the remote invocation to the rest of the business ...